Alfalab Construction and Deconstruction of a Digital Humanities Experiment Joris van Zundert Huygens Institute (KNAW) The Hague, The Netherlands [email protected]Anne Beaulieu Virtual Knowledge Studio (KNAW) Amsterdam, The Netherlands [email protected]Douwe Zeldenrust Meertens Institute (KNAW) Amsterdam, The Netherlands [email protected]
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Alfalab Construction and Deconstruction of a Digital Humanities Experiment Joris van Zundert Huygens Institute (KNAW) The Hague, The Netherlands [email protected].
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Alfalab is being created by Anne Beaulieu • Joris van Zundert • Douwe Zeldenrust • Rob Zeeman • Maarten Hoogerwerf • Charles van den Heuvel • Smiljana Antonijevic • Ruud Bronmans • Dirk Roorda • Leen Breure • Karina van Dalen • Ronald Dekker • Arjen Versloot • Sander Strating • Derk Drukker • Kees Mandemakers • Henk Wals • Paul Wouters • Peter Doorn • Reinier Salverda • Melle de Vries • Hans Bennis • Suzanne van Kaam • Bas Doppen • and a growing number of others cooperating...
Motivation for Alfalab
• Our Cultural Commonwealth, The report of the American Council of Learned Societies Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences. ACLS, 2006
• Tools for Data-Driven Scholarship: Past, Present, Future. A Report on the Workshop 22-24 October, 2008, Turf Valley Resort, Ellicott City, Maryland. March 2009
Motivation for Alfalab
• Little uptake of digital tools and 'method' in humanities
• Lack of Collaboration
• Lack of VRE's and Virtual Laboratories
• Lack of critical mass of digitized
• Problem of heterogeneity of tools, data and method
• Alfalab tries to meet the suggested requirements in a small controlled community setting
What Alfalab wants to be
• A collaboration on all levels
• Exploration of and experimentation on the 'laboratory metaphor'
• Objectives Success and fail factors Community building 'how-to' Exploration of form and